Live vs AR Mapping
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live
Easily transform videos, pictures, GIFs, and burst photos into dynamic Live Photos for your iPhone wallpaper. Explore a vast collection of themes, ringtones, and styles to personalize your lock screen and impress your friends. Supports automatic saving and customization options.
- Create Live Photos from videos
- Convert photos to live
- Convert GIFs to live
- Convert burst photos to Live Photos
- Automatic saving to album
- Customizable background colors and images
- URL to wallpaper generation
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photolive - dynamic theme Live Photo wallpaper creator. photolive can create Live Photos(Live Photo) very quickly. Convert your videos or pictures or URLs into Live Photos, use them as iPhone wallpapers, and provide a sea of dynamics, themes, ringtones, transparency, games, anime, Live Photos, couples and more than 100 types. You can customize the dynamic wallpapers of the lock screen and show off to your friends! Featured Function Create a Live Photo • Convert photos to live • Convert photos and videos to live • Convert GIFs to live • Convert burst photos to Live Photos • Automatically save the produced live photos to the album • Various background colors • Set a photo of your choice as the background • Use two-finger pinch video to zoom in and resize and • Video can be repeated to restore as a Live Photo Smart Wallpaper Provide a one-click URL to automatically generate a sea of popular high-definition wallpapers with different styles of desktop themes. Let users freely customize their phone desktops. You can set dynamic wallpapers in "Settings" > "Wallpaper". Only devices above 6s support dynamic wallpaper function. You can dynamically support live wallpapers "only" on the above devices in the Settings app.
AR Mapping
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幻映现 AR 是一款虚实融合增强现实创作应用。 你可以浏览精选AR素材，将数字幻境叠加于现实环境，通过手机相机拍摄照片、录制虚实融合视频，记录独一无二的AR创意作品。 主要功能： ‑ 浏览、收藏、下载丰富的AR数字素材 ‑ 在真实环境中实时预览AR虚实叠加效果 ‑ 拍摄AR照片、录制AR视频，一键保存至系统相册 ‑ 素材背包，便捷管理本地已下载素材 ‑ 查看个人创作作品、游玩足迹与消息通知 当前版本免费开放，开放内容均可免费体验。部分专属素材仅对授权用户开放。 使用AR功能时，请留意周边环境，注意人身安全，并遵守拍摄地点相关管理规定。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: AR Mapping at none against Live's shown. Live's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Live ships an update every 5 days, AR Mapping every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Live | AR Mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (245 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 245 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 354 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beyond Trading | Shanghai Bimu Illumination Design Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Live
No in-app purchases
AR Mapping
No in-app purchases
